Bob Francis blesses the crowd, leaving the hospital after fighting pneumonia for 5 weeks

Pope Francis left the weak and weak hospital on Sunday after they survived a seizure of pneumonia for five weeks, gave a thumb for a crowd of twenty and took a path to go to a church in Rome before returning home to the Vatican.

A procession bearing the 88 -year -old Pope was wounded on his way through traffic in light Rome on Sunday morning and continued to reach the Vatican city, where crowds of people lined up in the streets to welcome him at home.

Francis later arrived across the city in St. Mary Megor Bazilica, where he often goes to prayer. Before leaving Jameli Hospital, Francis gave a thumb and confessed to the crowd after he was removed from the balcony overlooking the main entrance.

“I see this woman with yellow flowers. Brava!” Francis said tired and superior. He gave a weak mark on the cross before returning inside.

“Viva Il Papa!” “Papa Francesco” broke out from the crowd, which included patients who were hurried abroad just to pick up its short appearance.

Naama came before he started a two -month rest period. People also gather in Saint Peter Square in the Vatican on Sunday morning to watch the ink on big TV.

Doctors, who announced his planned release on Saturday evening, said that he should refrain from meeting large groups of people or practicing themselves, but in the end he should be able to resume all his natural activities.

His return, after the longest hospital in the 12 -year -old and the second longest period in the last papal history, brought a concrete comfort for the Vatican and Catholic believers who were impatiently for 38 days of ascension and medical landing.

“Today I feel very happy,” said Dr. Rosella Rosando, a doctor from Salerno who did not treat Francis but was in Gimily on Sunday. “It is the demonstration that all our prayers, all the pink prayers from all over the world, have brought this blessing.”

Access to additional oxygen at home

No special arrangements were taken in Dumus Santa Marta, the Vatican Hotel next to Bazilica, where Francis lives in a two -room suite on the second floor.

The Pope will be able to reach additional oxygen and medical care 24 hours a day, although his personal doctor, Dr. Luigi Carbon, said he hoped that Francis will gradually need less breathing and less than help with recovering his lungs.

While pneumonia has been successfully treated, Francis will continue to take oral medications for some time to treat fungal infection in its lungs and continue respiratory and physical physical therapy.

“For three or four days he was asking when he could go home, so he is very happy,” Carbon said.

The Pope, who suffers from chronic lung disease and was part of the lung that was removed when a young man, was accepted in Gemelli on February 14 after the mismanagement of bronchitis.

2 blood transfusion

Doctors first diagnosed bacterial respiratory infection, virus, and complex fungi, and a short time later, pneumonia, in both lungs. Blood tests showed signs of anemia, low blood platelets and the beginning of kidney failure, which were later resolved after two blood transfusions.

The most dangerous setbacks began on February 28, when Francis faced a sharp coughing and inhaled vomiting, which requires the use of an expanded mechanical ventilation mask to help him breathe.

He suffered from other respiratory crises a few days later, which asked doctors to inhale mucous amounts of his lungs manually from his lungs, and at this stage sleep with the ventilation mask at night to help his lungs remove fluid accumulation.

The doctors said that Francis had never been deduced and had no consciousness at any time.

Dr. Sergio Alviri, the medical and surgical president of Gemili, who coordinated the medical team, Francis, said that the life of the Pope was in danger twice, during the severe respiratory crises.

Alfieri confirmed that Francis was still facing a problem in speaking due to the damage to his lungs and respiratory muscles. But he said that such problems were normal, especially in older patients, and he expected his voice to return to normal in the end.

There are no confirmed dates now

Vatican spokesman Matteo Brunei refused to confirm any upcoming events, including a tulle audience on April 8 with King Charles III or Francis participating in Easter services at the end of the month. But Carbon said he hoped that Francis would be good enough to travel to Türkiye at the end of May to participate in an important ecumenical memory.

The Pope also returns to the Vatican in the midst of the Holy Year, and it is a celebration in the last century that is scheduled to pay more than 30 million pilgrims to Rome this year. Francis has already missed many jubilee fans, and you are supposed to miss several others, but Vatican officials say that his absence did not significantly affect the numbers of expected pilgrims who arrive.

Saint John Paul II registered only longer in the hospital in 1981, when he spent 55 days in Gemelli to perform a simple surgery and treat infection.